Kim Jong-kyun graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design and earned his doctor’s degree in Design from the same institution. He currently serves as an Administrative Officer at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. He is the author of several books, including Design in Korea and Design Wars, and has co-authored many others. Kim has published numerous papers on the history of Korean design, branding, and design intellectual property rights, and regularly contributes articles on design to various media outlets.

Specialized in Visual Design and Design Theory at Seoul National University and its graduate school. As a recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship, earned a master’s degree from Musashino Art University and a Ph.D. in Art from the Department of Design at Nihon University. After serving as a researcher at Musashino Art University, currently works as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Semyung University while actively pursuing art, including two solo exhibitions. Co-authored several books, including Imperial Art Schools and Korean Students in Japan, Design Basics for High School National Curriculum, Basic Form Thinking, and 2014 Design White Paper, which was selected as a Sejong Book by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. Co-authored the 2019 publication Is Philosophy Necessary in Design? (デザインに哲学は必要か, Musashino Art University Press) in Japan and translated Design Studies, among more than ten co-authored and translated works.

He studied architecture at Hongik University and interior design at Cornell Graduate School, U.S.A. He is the dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Art at Hongik University and a professor at the College of Art and Architecture since 1996. He was the general director of the IFI World Interior Design Competition in 2007, a board member of the IFI World Federation of Interior Architecture from 2007–2011, president of the Korean Society of Interior Designers (KOSID) in 2011–2012, and president of the Korean Institute of Spatial Design (KISD) in 2017-2018. He received the 2006 Minister of Construction and Transportation Award and the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award at the Korea Design Awards for his KT Art Hall design. He is currently a guest lecturer at design competitions at leading universities in China, India, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates, including Singapore Design Week (SDW).

She studied design at Seoul National University and Cornell University Graduate School. She has contributed articles on design issues to the monthly Design and Designnet, and has expressed her vision of design as a social issue in the “Seoul Declaration of Industrial Designers” (2001), “Korea Design Declaration” (2007), “Charter of Women Designers” (2007), and “Human City Design Seoul Declaration” (2018). While a professor at Hansung University, she has served as a special exhibition curator for the Gwangju Design Biennale, a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Societies of Design Researchers (IASDR), president of the Korean Society of Design Science (KDSD), president of the Woman Designer Leadership network (WDLnet), and a member of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

He studied Glass and Sculpture at Seoul National University, Ohio State University Graduate School, and University of Illinois Graduate School, and received his Ph.D. in Crafts from Seoul National University. He has held 13 solo exhibitions in Korea, Italy, Japan, and the United States, and has exhibited his works at SOFA Chicago and Kanazawa Art Fair. Currently, he serves as a Professor in the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Hongik University’s College of Fine Arts and as the Chairman of the Korea Formative Design Association. He is also active as an editorial board member of the Korea Craft & Design Foundation. He has published seven research papers in registered journals on improving urban living spaces and food culture, and he is the author of Glass, Knocking on the Door of Art.

She studied graphic design at Seoul National University and Rhode Island School of Design, USA. She started working at the advertising agency Oricom and worked on many identity design projects as a freelancer. She is currently a professor of communication design at Samsung Advanced Design Institute (SADI). She is the author of The New Typographic Revolutionary: Jan Tschichold, 33 Typeface Stories that Make Good Design, and Ode to Typography, as well as independently published artist books, including Ode to Typography and Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra.

He graduated from the Department of Geography at Seoul National University and obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in photography and visual studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. He has taught photography aesthetics, the relationship between photography and contemporary art, visual aesthetics, media aesthetics, and art theory at Joongbu University, Yonsei University, and Hongik University. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Aesthetics at the College of Humanities, Seoul National University. His authored works include Roland Barthes, The Bright Room (2018) and The Two Faces of Documentary Photography (co-authored, 2012). His articles include “Roland Barthes’s ‘It-was-there-ness,’ Surprise, Madness” (2017), “Reconsidering Roland Barthes’s Reception Theory of Photography” (2016), “Vilém Flusser’s Media Aesthetics: Technical Images and Photography” (2015), “Vilém Flusser’s Reception Theory of Photography and Technical Images” (2015), and “Roland Barthes’s Dark Room: The Specificity of Photography” (2010).

After graduating from the Department of Applied Arts at Seoul National University in 1985, he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Industrial Design from Hongik University in 1987 and from the University of Michigan in 1990. In 2007, she completed her Ph.D. in Design Studies at Seoul National University with his dissertation, The Characteristics of Technology and the Formation of Product Archetypes (advisor: Lee Soon-jong). He served as an associate professor in the Department of Design Engineering at the Korea University of Technology and Education from 1994 to 2002. Since 2002, he has been a professor in the Department of Industrial Design within the Division of Design and the Arts at Yonsei University’s Wonju Campus. He is a member of the Korea Society of Industrial Designers and the Korean Society of Design Science.

Lee Jung-yeol majored in industrial design at Yonsei University and Dong Graduate School, and received his master’s degree in 2012 with the thesis A Study on the Development and Formation of Design Science (advisor: Seungjin Chae). He joined the Daelim Museum of Art in 2013 and is currently a senior curator. His major exhibitions include Nick Knight: Image and Coco Capitán: Is It Tomorrow Yet?, and he has curated Kim Mi-soo & Kim Young-joon: Present and Absent, Cho Gyu-hyung: Picture type - Hangul transforms into keyboard rhythm., and Omin: Trio and others.

With a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University and a master’s and Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, she has built a distinguished academic career. After teaching at the Samsung Design Institute (SADI) and the Department of Painting at Sungshin Women’s University, she is currently a professor at the Korea National University of Arts, School of Visual Arts. Her work focuses on the dynamic intersection of art exhibitions, criticism, theory, and art history. Studying in 20th-century New York, she explored the evolution and direction of contemporary art, understanding its inseparable connection to the broader history of art. She has authored books such as What is Avant-Garde?, Painters of Opera Street: 19th-Century French Civil Society and Art, Coexisting Differences: Contemporary Korean Women Artists, and Contemporary Art Through 22 Key Concepts, along with numerous research papers. She has served as President of the Korean Society of Art History and Chair of the Arts and Sports Advancement Council.

Yang Ok-kum studied Performance Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art in the UK, completed an MA in Art and Space (Curating) at Kingston University Graduate School, and completed a certificate program in Museum Studies at Harvard University. She began her career as an intern at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, where she worked as a curator at Gallery SSamji, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hansol Cultural Foundation (now Museum SAN), and Chief Curator at Hyundai Card, and is currently at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. His major exhibitions include Bauhaus Stage Experiments: Man, Space, and Machine (co-curated), Hwang Kyu-baek - Visible and Invisible, and Richard Hamilton: Continuous Obsession.

Rhi Joo-myung studied industrial design at Seoul National University and design management at Leicester Polytechnic in the UK. He joined LG Electronics when it was called Geumsung and gained practical experience in planning and product design for over 9 years. He taught product design, design methods, and design management at Inje University and now at Yonsei University Wonju Campus. He has long been interested in the qualitative nature of design and hopes to better understand the characteristics of design and how it works to survive in the face of social and technological change.

She graduated from Seoul National University’s College of Arts and Humanities with a B.A. in English Literature and received her M.A. in Fine Arts from the same graduate school. She earned an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in art history from the University of Iowa. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at Kookmin University College of Art. She is the author of Korean Abstract Painting: A Formation of Korean Avant-Garde (2013), The Vestige of Resistance:Harold Rosenberg’s Action Criticism (2009), and Harold Rosenberg’s Modernism Criticism (2009), and a history book, 20th Century Contemporary Art Theory (2013). Her recent research interests include the relationship between media art and art history and criticism, and Black Mountain College as a center for progressive interdisciplinary education through the arts.

She is an independent curator and professor of exhibition design at Kaywon University of Art & Design, South Korea. She holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK), Germany. While Chief Curator at Daelim Museum of Art, Seoul, she successfully organized major exhibitions such as Linda McCartney: Retrospective, TROIKA, Ryan McGinley: Magic Magnifier, How to Make a Book with Steidl, Swarovski: Sparkling Secrets, Karl Lagerfeld: Work in Progress, and Jürgen teller: Touch me, and in 2012 opened D project space to discover and support emerging artists. She is currently active in various personal curatorial projects.

He studied design in college and graduate school and received her PhD in design archive research. He has been practicing design curation and archival research since he worked as a chair designer at FURSYS Inc.’s and curated exhibitions such as droog design, Korean Design, and The New Vision from László Moholy-Nagy while working as a curator at the Design Museum at the Arts Center of Korea, and conducts workshops and research on maker culture and Korean design at Jayul Design Lab. He is currently an associate professor of design at Seoul National University of Science and Technology. He is the author of About Design, Rediscovering the Chair, and History of Things, and the translator of Design for Society.

He studied visual design at Seoul National University and Konstfack, Sweden, and worked at Allcommunication, a CI company. He is currently a professor at Inha University’s Department of Design Convergence. His books include Studies in the History of Design and Handbook of Korean Design History: Interviewing Korea’s Paul Rand, Cho Young-Jae, and his articles include “Correlation between Generation Shift and Corporate Design”, “The Characteristics and Meaning of Hong-Taik Han’s Design : The Prehistory of Korean Graphic Design”, “Kyo–Man Kim and Korean Graphic Design”, “The Roles and Influence of Cho Young-jae in the 1988 Seoul Olympics”, and “The Influence of Ahn Sangsoo on the Korean Graphic Design Cultural Ecosystem”.

Design critic. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Aesthetics at Hongik University. Served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Design and as the editor of the design criticism journal Design Critique. Focused on critically analyzing Korean society and culture through the lens of design. Authored several books, including: A View on Korean Design, Where is Korean Design Heading?, Korean Design: Beyond the Myth, If I Had Read That Book in Those Days, Civilization and Barbarism of Korean Design, Thoughts on Craftworks: Korean Contemporary Crafts, History of Western Design, Korean Design and Cultural Transition, A New Perspective on Korean Design and Design and Liberal Arts Imagination. Also translated works such as Design and Utopia and 20th Century Design and Culture.